Help!

[Lideon]

Hey guys,

After recently building my computer, I installed windows 7 to my ssd (crucial m4 128gb) all was well untill I changed from IDE to achi mode in the bios, now the drive isn't even found in the bios screen even after switching back to IDE mode.

Any help to figure out what the issue is is appreciated!

Cheers

Lideon

 

[Philtor]

Given the fact it's not being detected in the BIOS I would try another SATA port/cable and perhaps a CMOS reset as well. Once you manage to get it detected in the BIOS then boot under IDE mode and follow the registry hack here, then restart and enable AHCI mode.

 

[Lideon]

Thanks for the quick reply. I realised why it wasn't finding the drive, inthe excitement of completing my first build I forgot to connect it up to the power supply.

However you registry hacks did work in getting it to work on ahci mode.

Final question, is it windows experience inde which gets the ssd fully working? I.e trim, defrag disabled etc

Thanks for the help,

Lideon

 

[Philtor]

Yes run the Windows experience index for sure. A few other tweaks I did with my SSD was to reduce the amount of space allocated for system restore, disabled hibernation, windows search indexing and drive indexing.

How to change disk space allocation for System restore:
Right click on the Computer icon, choose Properties, click on the System Protection link,
click configure and then set the maximum disk space for system restore to use.


How to disable Hibernation:
Open command prompt as an elevated user (run as admin).
Type the following: powercfg –h off


How to disable Windows search:
Run services.msc then locate the Windows search service, select properties and change
startup type to disabled. Then simply stop the service.


How to disable Drive indexing:
Right click on SSD drive icon and select properties, then under the General tab remove
the check from ‘Index this drive for faster searching’.